The estimation of traffic flow variables (flow, space mean speed and density) plays a fundamental role in highways planning and designing, as well as in traffic control strategies. Moving Observer Method (MOM) allows traffic surveys in a road, or in a road network. This paper proposes a novel automated procedure, called MOM-AP based on Moving Observer Method and Digital Image Processing (DIP) Technique able to automatically detect (without human observers) and calculate flow q, space mean speed v s and density k in case of stationary and homogeneous traffic conditions. In order to evaluate how reliable is the MOM-AP, an experiment has been carried out in a segment of one two-lane single carriageway road, in Italy. 30 datasets for the segment have been collected (in total 30 round trips). A comparative analysis between MOM-AP and traditional MOM has been carried out. First results show that the current MOM-AP algorithms underestimate the local mean flow variable values of around 10%. Nowadays MOM-AP may be implemented in smartphone apps. Instead, in the near future, it is realistic expecting the increase in the use of automated procedures for calculating the traffic flow variables (based on the “moving observer method”), due to the amount of sensors and digital cameras employed in the new autonomous vehicles (AVs). Considering such technical advances, the MOM-AP is a feasible model for real-time traffic analyses of road networks.

TRAFFIC FLOW VARIABLES ESTIMATION: AN AUTOMATED PROCEDURE BASED ON MOVING OBSERVER METHOD. POTENTIAL APPLICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES / Guerrieri, Marco; Parla, Giuseppe; Mauro, Raffaele. - In: TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATION. - ISSN 1407-6179. - ELETTRONICO. - 2019:3(2019), pp. 205-214. [10.2478/ttj-2019-0017]

TRAFFIC FLOW VARIABLES ESTIMATION: AN AUTOMATED PROCEDURE BASED ON MOVING OBSERVER METHOD. POTENTIAL APPLICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

GUERRIERI MARCO;MAURO RAFFAELE
2019-01-01

Abstract

The estimation of traffic flow variables (flow, space mean speed and density) plays a fundamental role in highways planning and designing, as well as in traffic control strategies. Moving Observer Method (MOM) allows traffic surveys in a road, or in a road network. This paper proposes a novel automated procedure, called MOM-AP based on Moving Observer Method and Digital Image Processing (DIP) Technique able to automatically detect (without human observers) and calculate flow q, space mean speed v s and density k in case of stationary and homogeneous traffic conditions. In order to evaluate how reliable is the MOM-AP, an experiment has been carried out in a segment of one two-lane single carriageway road, in Italy. 30 datasets for the segment have been collected (in total 30 round trips). A comparative analysis between MOM-AP and traditional MOM has been carried out. First results show that the current MOM-AP algorithms underestimate the local mean flow variable values of around 10%. Nowadays MOM-AP may be implemented in smartphone apps. Instead, in the near future, it is realistic expecting the increase in the use of automated procedures for calculating the traffic flow variables (based on the “moving observer method”), due to the amount of sensors and digital cameras employed in the new autonomous vehicles (AVs). Considering such technical advances, the MOM-AP is a feasible model for real-time traffic analyses of road networks.
2019
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Guerrieri, Marco; Parla, Giuseppe; Mauro, Raffaele
TRAFFIC FLOW VARIABLES ESTIMATION: AN AUTOMATED PROCEDURE BASED ON MOVING OBSERVER METHOD. POTENTIAL APPLICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES / Guerrieri, Marco; Parla, Giuseppe; Mauro, Raffaele. - In: TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATION. - ISSN 1407-6179. - ELETTRONICO. - 2019:3(2019), pp. 205-214. [10.2478/ttj-2019-0017]
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